Georgia inmate who has come within hours of execution 3 times set to be executed this week Warren Lee Hill, 54, who was sentenced to death in August 1991, was first scheduled to die two and a half years ago. Challenges by his lawyers have provided reprieves and twice halted all executions in Georgia for months at a time. His case has drawn national attention to Georgia’s toughest-in-the-nation standard for death row inmates to prove intellectual disability. State law and a 2002 U.S. Supreme Court ruling prohibit the execution of the intellectually disabled, but Georgia requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Hill was sentenced to death in Lee County for the 1990 beating death of fellow inmate Joseph Handspike. At the time Hill was serving a life sentence for the 1986 slaying of his girlfriend. All doctors who have examined Hill now agree he’s intellectually disabled, Hill’s lawyers have argued. The state has consistently argued Hill’s defense has failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he is intellectually disabled, and Georgia’s strictest-in-the-nation standard has repeatedly been upheld by state and federal courts. Hill has the emotional capacity of an 11-year-old, Brian Kammer, a lawyer for Hill told The Associated Press. “That’s who we’re going to execute if we execute Warren Hill – a boy in a [...] geogianews/georgia-inmate-who-has-come-within-hours-of-execution-3-times-set-to-be-executed-this-week-3/
Posted on: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 09:00:48 +0000
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